Eighteen Killed in Polish Van Crash

Eighteen people were killed in Poland when a passenger van collided head-on with a truck, the Polish police said.

The accident took place 80 kilometers south of Warsaw at around 6 a.m. when a Volkswagen Transporter van swerved into the opposite lane in thick fog and hit a Volvo truck, the police said. The van probably carried commuters, according to Polish media reports.

Sixteen people were killed at the scene and two taken to a hospital, where both of them died, the police said.

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